Factor structure of the Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale among children and adolescents who survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-241

  Zhang, Ning ^a   Zhang, Yuqing ^a   Wu, Kankan ^a   Zhu, Zhuohong ^b   Dyregrov, Atle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c Center for Crisis Psychology   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Children's revised impact of event scale; Confirmatory factor analysis; Earthquake; Posttraumatic stress symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 79955585405     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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